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While I have never personally had a problem with the gateline staff at Euston (possibly because I always use Advance tickets and know to have got my ticket / appropriate ID / card out before approaching the platform). I have however witnessed a number of events where it appears there has been...

I see 1S46 completed its journey virtually on time today (+2.5Minutes into EDB after being +5 at Piccadilly). If it was indeed a 397 per TPE's Tweet. I would like to know how heavily loaded it was - sometimes these Sunday Morning services can be crush loaded!

The discussion on the rolling stock design being adopted by Avanti appears to have focused on the DRMF and DMSO carriages - which with their dark colouring contrasting with intermediate vehicles to me tends to make the Pendolino (at least) look like an HST. My major concern however is looking...

As I understand it the CMA could halt the transfer going ahead on the 7th December if they did have serious competition concerns. This would halt the VTWC franchise transfer until the CMA had concluded a formal Stage 2 investigation and issued their conclusions (normally during the...

From my casual observations there are a reasonable number of journeys made between Penrith and Lancaster. On one occasion I was on a VTWC train that did not stop at Penrith. In my coach there were 5 passengers (in 3 independent groups) who got on at Lancaster and then got very agitated when...

Although not between Oxenholme and Carlisle, I would be surprised if there wasn't competition concern over Lancaster to Penrith

The CMA has today issued a further statement: "The CMA has considered the undertakings offered and today announced that it considers that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the undertaking offered, or a modified version of it, might be accepted by the CMA to remedy the substantial...

Looks as if the CMA has thrown a spanner in the works. The CMA Press Release is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rail-merger-raises-competition-concerns

I saw one on the WCML the other day at 100mph + - looked very impressive! I am still concerned they are 1 coach too small. Went totally off TPE because of the overcrowding on the doubled up 185s - regularly standing only Preston to Edinburgh (let alone the chaos Preston to Manchester). There...

Yes - I seem to recall the first class free food and drink came in on the franchise change. I was invited on a freebie London trip from Manchester on a Saturday when the franchise started in 1997 so that they could show us as potential customers what the First Class offering would be, and...

On my initial list, I added: XC: 220 Northern: 331, 153 (used to strengthen some services) Plus (if appropriate): Metrolink: M5000 I had also double counted TFW 158's as well as Northern's, and saw a TPE 397 (but that was not in passenger service). As noted above - the unusually large number...

It was a 221 on the Reading to Banbury section in April 2004 that first introduced tilting trains to regular service in the UK. I think it may well have been the same unit that showed the misleading speed on the PID when in non tilt mode commented on by LNW-GW Jojnt and myself. See...

Shortly after the 221 Voyagers first ran in tilt mode (Beardy did a lot of advertising around this), I was on one with the passenger information system showing the speed - the PIS showed a speed of 130 mph on this stretch! It was definitely fast - but maybe not quite that fast!

I think Leeds might edge it over Man Picc due to the legacy HST and loco hauled stock, but it would be useful if you could identify the operator. I was thinking of passenger classes stopping at the station, but did wonder whether to include trams/underground (but ? only one type at Picc). I had...

Apologies if this has been dealt with elsewhere! After a recent visit to MIA, I noted that with both Northern and Transpennine in transition there were an unusual number of different types of rolling stock represented. This made me start to think about Manchester Piccadilly and I just wondered...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/recent-transpennine-express-problems-whats-going-on.189899/page-9 I think the major problem is the number of TPE and Northern services which route through major cities like Manchester, Leeds and York as intermediate stops...

If we are getting consideration of new paths through the Castlefield corridor. I think no cheap fudge will do. Manchester clearly needs a new East/West rail link - preferably one that supports NPR HS3 as well as other traffic. I think this needs to underground (a sort of mini Crossrail) with a...

It may not qualify as the "not too distant past" but I do remember at least one London train stopping at Congleton pre Virgin. Perhaps it was because I tended to travel at the same time of day - but it seemed that every train I was on (between Stockport and London) stopped at Congleton in each...

My reading of the transport part of the GM Spatial Planning document (albeit now some months ago) was that the Altrincham - Hale Train-Tram suggestion was that it would be an extension of the Train-Tram proposals covering use of the existing Altrincham - Cheadle line rather than an extension of...

Years ago, I enquired why Manchester did not have an underground or even at that time a link between Piccadilly and Victoria, I was told that the sub-soil ground structure in Manchester made tunnelling very difficult and costly. Technology may have moved on since then, but I still wondered if a...